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willaaam commented on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help   hey.paris/posts/appleid/... · Posted by u/parisidau
Rikudou · 7 days ago
"I'm not a fan of regulating extremely huge companies, except for the way I'd regulate them."
willaaam · 7 days ago
We must have regulation, and I support that fully. It also seems healthy to me to have an independent view on the specifics of said regulations. I mostly agree with the vision and direction of the DMA, but in my opinion it lacks specificity and clear unacceptable boundaries.

That lack of specificity, to me, is why Apple has been able to implement malicious compliance. At the same time the lack of specifics risks companies leaving the EU market in its entirety due to regulatory unclarity with high fines.

willaaam commented on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help   hey.paris/posts/appleid/... · Posted by u/parisidau
willaaam · 7 days ago
I'm not the biggest advocate of the EU DMA, but account and device access is one item we should actually be regulating very heavily, where potential penalties for (suspected) abuse or incompliance must be much more granular than full-on account bans.

It's hard to believe EU governments are actually considering mandating iOS and Android as gateways to access government services. It's a level of ignorance that's unfathomable.

This story is also exactly why I invest precious time running a Linux machine in the basement that rclones my cloud drives locally, as well as having full local copies of my webmail contents.

willaaam commented on Snake on a Globe   engaging-data.com/snake-g... · Posted by u/rishikeshs
willaaam · 7 months ago
I had fun, this is a nice idea. Would be great to expand this with a custom link that contains a list of places, with appropriate zooming, for school kids and teachers.
willaaam commented on Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?    · Posted by u/xeonmc
willaaam · 7 months ago
- Software

Haiku (because I was a first day BeOS user and I still miss that OS every day)

KDE (Daily driver and boy do I hate using Gnome)

Keepass2Android (essential, use it 20x per day)

Bottles (most robust and easy to use way to run windows games on my Linux box for me)

- Other projects:

Wikipedia (I'm don't 100% align with some of the politics internally and externally, as well as their spending on sidehustles, but regardless there's just no substitute)

ScreenScraper.fr (because I like neatly organized retro games)

- Today I learned:

Thunderbird donating to thunderbird only supports Thunderbird, so I'll start.

Internet Archive Even though some of the stuff they are doing is legally dubious, in general I'd say the initiative is a force for good. Considering support.

- What I wish I was able to support:

OpenSUSE I use this distro every day, but I don't have the time to invest in the community other than some well written bug reports and packaging feedback every now and then.

Firefox and MDN docs Oh boy do I have zero trust in Mozilla as an organisation, but the browser and the MDN docs are so fundamentally important to me. Regardless, I just can't bring myself to support the organisation with the current CEO.

willaaam commented on File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface   filepilot.tech/... · Posted by u/vjekoslav
willaaam · 10 months ago
Please, I beg you dear developer, replace my stupid MacOS finder with your superpowers!
willaaam commented on K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes   k3s.io/... · Posted by u/kristianpaul
mfer · 2 years ago
If you want to easily try it out, we baked it into Rancher Desktop [1]. RD let's you run Kubernetes (via k3s) and containers on your desktop. You pick the k8s version.

[1] https://rancherdesktop.io/

Disclosure, I work for SUSE and started Rancher Desktop.

willaaam · 2 years ago
I just made an account here to say thank you. Rancher desktop is amazing on my M2 mac, it's easy to use, solves a bunch of challenges from k8s to docker and has been surprisingly reliable for a young product.

u/willaaam

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